It is possible to cherish the BBC as an institution while also saying that BBC News is failing very badly, day after day, in its duty to inform and that it always fails in a right-wing direction. It desperately needs to recover its integrity

The @zackpolanski.bsky.social Green Party 💚 bounce 📈

UK set for highest inflation this year in G7, OECD says on.ft.com/4mOGK6d

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

There’s no link. There is however an incredibly strong correlation between tangerine presidents and pedophiles. Release the Epstein files. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Donald Trump announces that paracetamol can be very effective for treating outbreaks of people discussing the Epstein files.

They’ve caved.

Government announces second Gatwick Airport runway www.channel4.com/news/governm...

Populism gets the clicks. Until we sort that out, very hard to see how we climb out of a widespread political mess.

I generally rate Chris Mason but it would make things easier for all if Robbie Gibb - Brexiter & Theresa May’s director of comms at Number 10 - were not still a non-executive director of the BBC. Everything he touches turns to shit. Including, at the moment, a lot of the Beeb’s political journalism.

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Seriously. A one-hour Party Political Broadcast. Followed at the top of the next hour with top story billing and a highlights package. Exactly how will this be "balanced" across their coverage? Where is Ofcom? Where is Nandy?

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day.... PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Next it will be you.

For those interested in the implosion of the Sultana-Corbyn Your Party, yes, it all went exactly as expected.

Update: A Green Party of England & Wales spokesperson tells me they've just broken 78,000 members Which means the party has jumped 5,000 in less than 5 days. Picking up a lot of Your Party backers no doubt And it's up by 10,000 - about 15% - since Zack Polanski was elected leader. A big cash boost

New Senedd report: 📉 Exports to the EU down 31% 💷 Businesses facing spiralling costs and red tape 🇪🇺 Wales sidelined in UK–EU talks It's time for all politicians in Wales to help reverse this mess, to make our economy stronger and households better off. 👇🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 nation.cymru/news/major-r...

'No one is listening to what we have to say.' Conservatives have a 'sense of terminal decline' under Kemi Badenoch ➡# Read more: trib.al/41yEXkP

Reform UK receives £100,000 donation from firm that faced winding-up petition; cost borne by workers/creditors. Party funded by the super rich, tax exiles, offshore entities, hedge funds, foxhunting enthusiasts. Reward: policies that will enrich a few

Morning Bluesky. Lib Dem leader Ed Davey is going full-on in tackling Musk. "He [Musk] is actually, I think, committing crimes," he told Laura Kuenssberg.

Tory legacy will always be corruption www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/d...

Green Party - Nationalise the water companies, tax the super rich, invest in our public services, stop the genocide, lower bills. The Telegraph - Greens are "hard left."

BREAKING: Trump is effectively pulling back from NATO just as Russia begins violating the sovereignty of NATO nations like Poland, and Estonia. The Pentagon has just informed European diplomats the US will partially halt military assistance to Baltic nations and NATO states bordering Russia.

This guy is such a scumbag. Do not buy Dyson products.

Neil Kinnock points out that Brexit: - cost UK economy £100bn a year - reduced tax revenues by £40bn a year - exited UK from system where asylum seekers are processed by first EU country entered & can be returned there Says time to put #RejoinEU on the agenda… independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Another senior Russian executive has been found dead in Moscow. Alexander Tyunin, CEO of Umatex, a Rosatom subsidiary, supplied materials for Shahed drone production. Russia says suicide.

(+ yesterday another 1000) = 77,000 members. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Labour MPs are upset and frustration about the Government’s stupid, unforced errors ➡# Read more: trib.al/JMRVqfc

Zarah Sultana consults defamation lawyers after spat with Jeremy Corbyn over party funds

It’s over!

The whole world is mocking MAGA-America right now.

UK borrowing rises to worse-than-expected £18bn in August

Defra's new statement about the cost of nationalising water fails to recognise 💧1/3 of water bills goes to debt and dividends 💰buying a profitable asset = you get a profitable asset ⚖️parliament can decide on appropriate compensation @leftfootforward.bsky.social leftfootforward.org/2025/09/gove...

Pyongyang-style

Future Fund fiasco: UK taxpayers have lost £400 million as a result of an investment fund launched by Rishi Sunak.

We might be about to find out just how supine the following institutions are about the 1st amendment 1) The media companies 2) Congress 3) The Supreme Court Likely answer? Probably (in decreasing order) very supine.

This is one of the most important posts of the day.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

They’ve split.

Not a single reporter asked about Mandelson or Epstein. The absolute wusses.

Even the issue of Lord Mandelson doesn’t throw off the press conference, as the US President deftly passes it to the Prime Minister to answer. This has gone exceptionally well for Starmer, considering the risks involved.

UK is now a vassal state of the US. Embarrassing, pathetic, and with a very worrying trajectory. Labours “National renewal” is looking like national decline all in the name of anti EU ideology. #europe #eu #trump #abc

‘They are making it increasingly obvious they want to criminalise criticism.’ James O’Brien says nobody in Donald Trump’s world ‘truly believes’ in free speech.

Passion from WTO founder James Bacchus at @wto.org panel on “The WTO without the United States?” “I have a message for 165 of the 166 members of the WTO: ‘stop letting the United States of America push you around. Stand up for your rights under the WTO treaty’. …’use it or lose it’” Cue applause.

Today is the day when the UK has prostituted itself to the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social winning the argument. Embarrassing stuff here from Penny.

The Spectator now lurching towards fascism by analogy, including an interview with Andrew Tate (they’ll regret that). Of course, the Weimar comparison is daft. There’s no interesting culture for a start.

Inflation in the UK is almost double than the EU. With no growth.